Sorry to be the bearer of badof news this morning. News this thats okay. We need a little rain. Molitt thats true. Hatsru that helps make thingsakings grow. Good morning to you. Ni to thank you for joining us. Us. Im holly morris. Morri im maureen umeh. I maure today is thursday june 16th. 16th gary is here, erin is here. H shes following a number off issues including a portion oftio the outer loop being at a aa standstill. Growing concerns can of another isis inspireg d attackak in our region. O reg today cia director john brennan will go beforeo be congress. Hes expected to tell it that ta isis militants are planning plan more lone wolf type of typ attacks. Now, some of brennans prepared remarks for the Senate Intelligence committeenc bve been released. Hes expected to say that isisti has a large group of westernfte fighters who could carry out out those types of attacks at any a time. Time. Happening today president t obama and Vice President joece p biden will head to orlando too o visit with the families of the f nightclub shooting victims. Ti vc the white house says theays two will stand in solidarity lawmakers want a series of o facebook posts mateen madeeen me before the shooting to be t sho looked at closer. Senate leaders sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg. In in a post he reportedly repoe pledged allegiance to the leader of isis. Isis. It was one of the longestge filibusters in history as a Senate Democrats fight to get Gun Legislation brought to the floor. Donald trump vowed to saved s americas second amendments secd rights. Jennifer davis is live fromavis capitol hill with the latest. E t good morning, jenny. En good morning to you guys. Ng to u this was actually the ninthth longest speech in modernoder senate history, 14 hours and a 50 minutes unfolding heree inside the capitol yesterdaytery and in the end senatend sen democrats say they did succeedie in getting republicans to agree to the vote on two gunn t control measures although itas t remains to be seen if theres ts enough support to get thoseo get lets talk about a filibuster for a second. Utfoa se typically it is used to trys ust and block or delay legislation but in this case senator chrisec murphy a democrat fromfr connecticut where of course 20r0 children were killed in the sandy hook massacre in 2012 he2h was using this filibuster tois try and get legislationislation considered. He was particularly interestedla in trying to get a vote on two different gun measures so hegun began his filibuster at 11 20 1 in the morning. Orni he wrapped it up at 2 11 thisis morning. In rules say you have to stand att your desk. Your des you cant sit. You have to stand whole time tim to keep control of the floor. Lo he did that and was joined by b 40 senators cspan two says helping him make that happen. T p in the end he tweeted the gop leaders agreed to allow votesot on whether to keep people one o terror watch lists fromts fm getting a gun license and whether to expand background bao checks at gun shows. Heres some of what was saidha on the floor. Actions speak louder than words. And the nation deserves action. 90 percent of the American People want common sense measures likes like background checks. This violence in our country will continue unlessnls we take measures, common senseen measures to restrict thesehese firearms going to known or suspected terrorists. Reporter now, the gun the g dentrol debate certainlyl extending to the campaigng the trail. Donald trump has been endorsedor by the nra and he has said that he opposes any tightening n of gun control laws. Un in fact, he told an audienceiee in georgia yesterday he willil work to save the second sec amendment for them but he also tweetd that he would like to lit meet with the nra to talkitthe about not allowing people onplon the nofly list to buy guns. G the nra says it will meet withew him. In fact, someone did meet withih him on tuesday although theyy did not discuss the terror terro watch list issue. Ss they said theyll meet with meeh him on the issue but they also s said they have no plans to t change their position. Heosit back to you guys. 5 04. 0 rumors are circling on who o w could be hillary Vice President pick. Oregon senator jeff america lees name have been flowingbeen around. He was the only member of th eerthe senate to formally endorse clintons rival bernieval b sanders. Hes known as a progressive liberal. Ral. Massachusetts senatorr Elizabeth Warren stirred up vp rumors last week. W donald trump wont be getting Maryland Governor gov larry hogans vote. He says he doesnt plan ton to vote for trump. Tru hogan in the past has saide pa hes no fan of trump and will al not endorse him. T en trump won marylands primarys pa back in april. Just five minutes past the hour now, 73 degrees outside and it is wet, gary. Thats right. Lingering from what we hadt we with showers andhowersnd thunderstorms did you guyss y get wet overnight. Yes. Did you hear it . Most of that has moved on but b we still have a couple showers out there this morning. Er tracking these, these havehese v been moving along the northern r tier of maryland counties. Mostly just north of interstate 70, thats where wehw find them this morning. Theyve pretty much moved intod wester c into northern and central cen sections of Baltimore County and then up towards hartfordtfor county. Right now nothing else hase has developed around the metro, okay, but that doesnt mean itom might not because we do still have more showers andnd thunderstorms creeping into the western sections of our state, northwestern neighborhoods later on. I am going to put in for thisoru mot rning until about eight or o 9 oclock at least a chance of a scattered shower or ar a thunderstorm. Th does notun mean everybody getsdt wet. Lunchtime we should be noon o we should be sunshine and warm r with a little bit of humidityhuy out there and high high temperatures today middleurod 80s. 80s. Strong thunderstorms, maybeormse even some severe weather. Re wea. Were outlooked for that latertt on today. Theres you your forecast. Ect. Erin is in with your fork. 5 i six we continue toe t track this breaking news. Outer loop remains shut downhut between georgia and you can see all the backed upac traffic stuck in the closure. Loe the crash involves ae cr tractortrailer and a vehicle that hit the back of ther tractortrailer. Ai Pete Piringer from Montgomery County letting us know thehe person has been extricated extrd from the vehicle. Unknown extent of injuries atur this point. Some folks are going to be a goi very late to work thisis morning. Lets take a look at our maps. A. Your best bet avoid the outerut loop exit at Georgia Avenue oreo before that point. Oint. I would suggest taking tak eastwest highway as an alternate to get around that and watch for a lot of delays growing this morning. In addition to that westbound bay bridge some good news finorr you, lets take a lookook outside, we had all lanes lanes blocked on the westbound side between kent island andn kent id annapolis. They did reopen the right laneth so as you can see theee standstill traffic that hadhat a been backed up for miles is moving but you are stilltill looking at a delay because ofauo some leftover residual delay d there but right opened, crash oe involving an overturned carned r westbound side of the bayunside bridge leading to annapolis. Nna. Well let you know when things get back to normal. Norma well check the rest of your yor morning commute and metro that all other rails on time and well keep you updated onedn the outer loop that isteloop currently shut down at georgia. Gia. Back to you maureen and holly. Y if youre looking for ways lf to get around perhaps biking might be an alternate. It is gaining popularity in growing in the midst of metros safetrack program. Rogram in virginia capitoll bikeshare says usage is up as ia much as 50 percent and in the district its up 6 percent. 6 pt capitol bikeshare says it willl allow more Choral Services servi during the second phase of theph program which actually beginsyeg this weekend. Ke capitol bikeshare has also als lowered its prices offering one way trips up to 30 minuteses for just two bucks. Ks coming up on fox newsox n morning our teenaged daughter your you i was going say wow. Shes grown up so fast. F your teenaged daughter will soon have to register at thehe Selective Service or face upserr to five years in prison. F National Medical organization wants congress tot lift a ban for preventingvein federal Health Agencie researching the impact of gun violence on the country. Oury as we head to break lookingkg outside across the d. C. Region, time right now is 5 08. 5 08. This is drake, isnt it, hisake new song . Ong . Im asking you out there because i want your feedback. Eec what do you want to hear thisis morning . Its thursday. Thursda were that much closer to thetoe weekend. En fox news morning back right after this. The vote sums as a surprisee since house republicanse use stopped the female draft provision. President obama threatened tohre votto the bill not because of be drafting women but because the e bill calls for keepingee guantanamo opened which the o president wants to close. C shooting prompted the American Medical Association to calln toc gun violence a Public Health crisis. The ama wants lawmakers to overturn 20yearold0yearo legislation which prevents the centers for Disease Control and prevention from conducting g research on gun violence. Viole medical association saysy research on gun violence would help to determine thousand reduce the high rate of gun of g related deaths and injury. No deal between boeing and bn iran. Two former u. S. Treasury. 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Ebb flee has been impacted ie by a decline in sales and has hs tried to evolve from print to digital platforms much no wordpt on how much the magazines solded for. R. Newly declassified report revealing some of the interrogation tactics used on detainee. De a woman claims she lostla half of her body weight byight putting down this one sugaryoneu drink. As we led to head to t break, 5 12 is our time right rg now, were at 73 degrees. Ee a little bit wet out there b this morning. It well talk more weather, weath traffic an lot more news after the break. Fox news morning back right after this. Maxx life in store and online. Find brands you love at prices that work as hard as you do. Sip up an afternoon pickmeup at dunkin. Come in for a medium freshly brewed hot or iced coffee for 99 cents from 2 00 to 6 00 p. M. America runs on dunkin. Weve got breaking news. N youre looking at a backup onkun the outer loop of the beltway. W ouch. So early for such a biguch a b problem. Problem. All lanes of the outer looput lo are shut down near georgiaeorgia avenue. Aven now, this is because of aec crash involving a tractortrailer. Trac accident between georgia and and connecticut is where it all happened. Ppened. Delays are building alreadylr back to route 29. Erin of course is going tooing have more on all of this and th more importantly the get t around in just a minute. Nd in jm all right. In before that lets check inthets with gary mcgrady for what what today hold weatherwise. They get going so earl to ear try to avoid things like that. The pavement is drying out. We havent had any new rainnt an around the metro area for thefor last several hours. Everal hours at least thats some good news there. We could have more showers, a, a couple more thunderstormseror certainly possible new york. Main event comes this t afternoon into this evening. N to heres the setup at the surface. Surfac we have this warm front and to be perfectly honest with you, y were not e this frontal system is going g to and up late this afternoonp a but where it does end up this afternoon is going to beteit ver very important as to where thehe strongest and the severe thunderstorms will be. Torms ll b humid all around the region. Ndhr super hot on the south and and southwest side of the front. Fr. F re kind of back up here in the warm side of the front butro were still talking aboutalkinga middle 80s late thisate afternoon. Heres the setup for this thi afternoon. Rn more showers and thunderstorms in the 80s. Again along this boundary andnd south of this boundary thats t where everything is going tong be. Were going to have theg to he h potential for some severe sever weather here but the strongest, the most severeost sr thunderstorms, the potentialtore for a bit of p an outbreak outbr should be west and southwestern areas. Rn are this includes a lot of ourt o counties down here with an enhanced risk of severe deunderstorms and were talking about large hail, were talking about wind and wid were talking about theing aboue possibility, too, of maybe aoo,e few tornadoes as well so its definitely something to keeply an eye on. This weekend, though, all that h goes ay what. Goy it still looks gorgeous. Gor 81 on saturday. Satur 82 on sunday. So, happy fathers day if that applies. Looks like it will be a dry weekend. Week we get really into the heat hea again next week. Heres erin. Res eri well, right now i have breaking news for you at 5 17. 1 we had all lanes of the outerou loop shut down with a crashh ra involving a car andg a and tractortrailer between georgia and connecticut. A right now we do know one laneone is getting by. Is gting were not sure if theyrere going to be reopening thetore outer loop entirely or just letting some of the folksthe stuck between georgia and connecticut at that closuret cle point through so well keeproug you updated onll that. T regardless traffic is still atla a standstill and you have overnh a 2mile backup leadingng towards 29, the split frompl f columbia pike to colesvilleol road. My best advice use eastwest ea highway as an alternate altnate because these folks could be b facing at least a 45 minute ledelay this morning. Lay th mori back to our maps right nowight n were seeing delays there. You can see that long line of reded leading towards that location. Tc little bit of a rubber neck delay on the inner loop asthe n well. Also more breaking news with wit Montgomery County letting us know they are investigatingnvesa right now at the metro the bethesda stop on wisconsin ofiso a firefighters are out therere e with a possible arcing arcin insulator in the tunnelr inhe t between bethesda and Friendship Heights. So well keep you updated onee that but that could affect the red line. Again firefighters outer out investigating the tunnel onthe n the red line between bethesda bd and Friendship Heights. Aside from that a lane did laned open on the westbound side oftb the bay bridge so traffic oncenc again moving from kent islandm i into annapolis. Earlier overturned vehicled vehe accident had all lanes blocked. Blocke still dealing with delays on the bay bridge. So very busy morning. Morni well keep you updated. Ou uat any questions at erin fox5 f d. C. On twitter. Holly and maureen. Mau lets take a look at the stories youre engaging withg w on social media this morning. Mo for that well turn to thalo wisdom martin who is at our realtime news tracker. Good morning. First up this morning newg w declassified transcripts arefi a shedding light on detaineeaie torture by the cia. The new documents containon first person testimony about the cias torture programro which started back in 2002. In 2 enhanced interrogation programoo say it produced informationnfrm that saved lives. Meanwhile on the campaign cg trail, cnn will host a moderated town hall with libertarian president ialiden nominee gary johnson and bill al weld as well. We the network has done similarimil events with the republicansns and democrats during themo primaries but this time americas third party willthirdw take the stage. Ge. Now johnson has top double doubl digits in several polls and needs to earn at leastto ear 15 percent support in five s in National Polls to get onto the president ial stage. Ta and need a reason to ditchni your cocacola habit . Howit . W about this. 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